Japanese troops surrender on board United States Naval ship Missouri in the Pacific Theater. Officers sign surrender documents and General Douglas MacArthur delivers a speech. People celebrate the end of World War II. Harry S. Truman, Molotov and Gromyko and delegates of 50 other nations sign United Nations charter in San Francisco, California. American troops return after the war.
A presenter introduces a weekly radio program over a micro phone as it is being recorded at a Hollywood studio in Los Angles, California. Comedian Bob Hope performs.
Comedian Bob Hope introduces Betty Hutton on a weekly radio program over a micro phone as it is being recorded at a Hollywood studio in Los Angles, California. Betty sings a song for the soldiers as Bob Hope and Lana Turner joke. (World War II period).
comedian Bob Hope proposes a vote of thanks in a sing song manner on a weekly radio program as it is being recorded at a Hollywood studio in Los Angles, California.
Exterior view of San Francisco National Guard Armory building at the corner of Mission Street and 14th Street in San Francisco, California, United States. Soldiers of 250th Coast Artillery exit the armory building with gear, load up into trucks, drive, and enter Camp McQuade in California, during World War 2. Artillery guns parked to the side as men jump from trucks. View of tent encampment. Men in the foreground set up tents.
Three Apollo I astronauts, Rogers Chaffee, Edward White and Gus Grissom die due to a flash fire at a grounded space capsule in Cape Canaveral, Florida. File pictures of the three in an Apollo command module.
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